Friday, March 20, 2009

Oh, yeah...you read that title right. It's FRIDAY FREEBIE today! And, that means free stuff. The hilariously funny heidi at Sacred and Profane asked me if I wanted to host a Friday Freebie and I think it took me, oh...about a second to say yes! Who wouldn't want to be a part of some linky love and if you know me you know I love to give!! So, thanks heidi, not only for today, but for all of your humorous comments and fun posts. You crack me up and keep me coming back for more!

You'll have multiple chances to enter...I'm in the mood to be generous.

First, leave me a comment with an answer to this question: What is your favorite Easter tradition?Second, leave me a separate comment telling me that you blogged about today's Friday Freebie and link back to my site using my brand new button! (you'll find it on the left hand side at the top)Third, leave me a comment telling me that you grabbed that cute new button and placed it on your blog's sidebar.Fourth, leave me a comment telling me you are a follower or that you just became a follower.

That's FOUR CHANCES TO WIN!! (make sure you leave a comment for each that you choose to do)

Comment by Saturday at 10:00 PM PDT. I'll choose a winner through random.org and announce the winner on Sunday morning!

I am already a follower and my favorite Easter tradition is attending the Easter Services at my church with family on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. :) I also like getting my kids cute Easter outfits. :)

OKAY her I go...my favorite easter tradition? Well every Easter after church my family along with some others from my parents church stay afterwards and we take family pictures of each other. It started out with my parents, my sister, brother, and me. It has grown to 16 of us now (spouses and 8 grandchildren). It's fun to look back and see how the family has grown and how we each have changed!

Our town hosts an Easter egg hunt for the kids on the grounds of a beautiful inn. It is so fun to see the kids running around gathering eggs. The Easter bunny visits and there is face painting and popcorn. It also gives parents to chat with people they may of not seem all winter. We do it every year no matter the weather, rain, shine or waist high snow!

My favorite Easter tradition is going to the Egg hunt in my mom's small town. Everyone meets at the library and they have an Easter bunny in costume who leads them to the park for the hunt. After they hunt eggs everyone meets back at the library for cookies and juice and a Easter bonnet contest.

My favorite Easter tradition is we go to my sister's for dinner. After dinner, we have a huge egg hunt outside for the kids. My husband and brother in law hide eggs everywhere and it's so funny to watch the kids find them. The older ones know the easy ones are for the little ones and they are so good in leaving them. The kids love it too and look forward to it.

I really enjoy when the kids do the egg hunts. We do separate ones for the older two and younger two. Each child knows how many eggs they have to find and what is on their eggs (letter or number to differentiate between children). We make the ones for the older two really hard. One year it took them over an hour to find them all. Lots of fun for all.

My favorite Easter tradition is hunting easter eggs! We continued to do this in my family even as adults! My dad always hid one "money" egg for each of us so we were motivated to hunt even if just for a dollar!

I am a follower now...I didn't realize I wasn't before. I thought I had hit all the Heidi's.I know you must have thought I forgot about the whole pay it forward thing but I did finally get something out in the mail. I just couldn't decide what to send that wouldn't be stupid. Hope you like it!

When we got to be old enough, my brother and I would go to sunrise Easter service with my mom and afterward we would go to my grandma's house and have to hunt for our Easter basket. It was always in a really creative place (my brother's was in the basketball hoop one year). Oh and we always got really dressed up. That was my favorite part!

Our church does a sixty hour prayer vigil (someone is praying at the church for the sixty hours before the sunrise service on Easter). I love praying during an early morning time slot. It is so peaceful and puts me in the right mindset for Easter. I have done this five years in a row, so now it is a tradition!

What a cute giveaway! My favorite Easter tradition is that my mom buys us the peeps candy each year. My brother gets yellow and I get pink. I really don't want to pass along the tradition because you know those things are pure sugar. Thanks again for the chance to win!Have a great Friday!

Favorite Easter tradition would be that my wife (you know, the one you are hosting for) and I have tried to keep one spiritual element in the gift giving for the girls. Not just eggs and candy and fake egg laying Easter bunnies, but something with a greater spiritual meaning. Usually this is/was a trip to the Christian book store, but could be anything really.

What a fab giveaway...love it all and would love to win! My favorite Easter tradition is after church go to my mom's and all the grandkids gather. I make resurrection cookies (hollow) inside and tell the story of Jesus and his resurrection...I'll have to post it...It is great...the kids look forward to it each year.

My favorite Easter Tradition is to cut out the shape of the Easter Bunny's foot and then shake baby powder over it so that it leaves a "print" on the carpet. I do this randomly from the front door to the table where the kids find a group gift and a clue to help find their individual baskets. I also leave some black jelly beans near the footprints as "bunny droppings." The kids love it!

Just last year I started an Easter tradition with my friends where we made "Cones of Compassion". We made decorative cones out of ribbon and scrapbook paper and filled them with little goodies. We delivered the cones to the ladies at the Center for Women in Transition. They were mini Easter baskets. It is a special memory and something I would like to do again this year!